Charles LambHarper, 1899 - 182 pages |
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Page 51 - before. To that unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore, Some summer morning— When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?" These charming verses are themselves a
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Page 105 - I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice \Vn; and as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness and difficulty and denial meant in
Page 94 - from one who professes to like minced veal. There is a physiognomical character in the tastes for food. C holds that a man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple-dumplings. I am not certain but he is right." And so he rambles on in almost endless digression and absolute fearlessness as to egotism of
Page 50 - flushed her spirit. I know not by what name beside I shall it call: if 'twas not pride, It was a joy to that allied She did inherit. " Her parents held the Quaker rule Which doth the human
Page 129 - blank,' and that she 'never told her love,' there was a pause, as if the story had ended — and then the image of the 'worm in the bud' came up as a new suggestion—and the heightened image of ' Patience' still followed after that, as by some growing (and not mechanical) process, thought springing up after thought,
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Page 100 - mortar knaves at their process of destruction, at the plucking of every panel I should have felt the varlets at my heart. I should have cried out to them to spare a plank at least out of the cheerful store-room, in whose hot window-seat I used to sit and read